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  • Civil Rights Leaders Call for Halt to Water Fluoridation

    Because fluoride can disproportionately harm poor citizens and black families, Atlanta civil rights leaders, Andrew Young and Dr. Gerald Durley, have asked Georgia legislators to repeal the state’s mandatory water fluoridation law. Andrew Young, former U.N. Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor, along with Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, Pastor of Providence Baptist Church in Atlanta, both […]

  • Plattsburgh: Group Asks City To Remove Fluoride From Water

    Representatives from the Fluoride Action Network asked Plattsburgh city councilors Thursday to take fluoride out of the city drinking water. Network representative Paul Connett said fluoride is to blame for long list of of health problems, and he wants it removed from the water. “Fluoride also has other things like lead in it”, said Connett […]

  • NYC: Councilman Peter Vallone is pushing to ban fluoride from the City water supply

    The next time you tell your kids that they need to drink more water, take a long hard look at what you’re really giving them. On Tuesday, May 15, Councilman Peter Vallone D-Astoria will hold a rally at City Hall, to protest the act of adding fluoride in New York City’s drinking water, our drinking […]

  • Major corporations changing statements on safety of fluorides

    Ellijay, GA – In a stunning development certain to gain the attention of risk managers at water utilities around the world, key toothpaste manufacturers and other organizations are changing how they portray the safety or risks of fluorides and water fluoridation. Colgate-Palmolive is now selling an unfluoridated toothpaste for infants and toddlers. The label on […]

  • Fluoride in Milk Plan is “Knee Jerk Reaction”

    SCHOOL milk with added fluoride is to be introduced for the first time in Doncaster – under a controversial project to halt tooth decay in children. Parents of pupils at Belle Vue’s St Peter’s Roman Catholic Primary School are expected to be able to sign up for their youngsters to be given daily fluoridated milk […]

  • Potsdam: Connett Raising Fluoride Awareness

    CANTON – He has spent 14 years fighting fluoride, but Paul H. Connett thinks next year might be his break-through year. The professor emeritus of chemistry at St. Lawrence University recently published a book, “The Case against Fluoride,” and has spent most of this fall traveling around the globe promoting it. Mr. Connett has espoused […]

  • Do We Really Need Fluoride In Water?

    Have you ever wondered why we need to have fluoride in drinking water when there is already fluoride in our toothpaste? The October 2010 issue of the journal of the American Dental Association has confirmed that infants fed with formula milk prepared from fluoridated water run a greater risk of fluorosis (mottling and discolouration of […]

  • Westinghouse questioned about missing fuel (UF6)

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission questioned Westinghouse Electric Co. officials Wednesday about nuclear material missing from its fuel-making plant in Columbia, S.C. An NRC enforcement meeting in Atlanta addressed the loss of 4.5 ounces of powdered uranium hexafluoride, also known as UF6. Westinghouse workers discovered on Feb. 11 that three five-gallon cans containing 16 sample vials […]

  • NRC downplays threat from nuclear material missing in South Carolina

    This Wednesday, July 9, staff with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a meeting in Atlanta with officials from the Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels Plant in Columbia, S.C. to discuss nuclear materials that went missing back in February. The meeting will be open to the public for observation. On Feb. 11, personnel at the Westinghouse plant […]

  • EPA Unions Call on Agency, Congress To Recognize Carcinogenicity of Fluoride

    Unions representing Environmental Protection Agency employees and other public health professionals have asked Congress to impose a nationwide moratorium on drinking water flouridation programs and called on EPA to set a goal of reducing the amount of fluoride in drinking water based on evidence it is associated with cancer. The request, set forth in letters […]